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Art For Sale
Artist: Slim Aarons
Artist: Carlos Mérida
Slim Aarons 'Poolside Pairs' Midcentury Modern
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Poolside Pairs
1970 (printed later)
C print
Estate stamped and numbered edition of 150
with Certificate of authenticity
Caption: Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
$3,588 Sale Price
20% Off
Wendy Vanderbilt, Palm Beach, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features American socialite Wendy Vanderbilt at home in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
This is an estate ...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Lounging in Bermuda - Sundowners by Swimming Pool Jill Council Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Lounging in Bermuda - Sundowners by Swimming Pool Jill Council Photograph by Slim Aarons
16" x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
"Loun...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Il Canille, 1980 - Faraglioni Rocks Capri Horizon Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Il Canille, 1980 - Faraglioni Rocks Capri Horizon Landscape Photograph by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
"Il Canil...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Lucky Luciano, Sicily, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sicilian-born American gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (1897 - 1962) walking with friends...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Poolside Backgammon (Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Guests at the Villa Nirvana, owned by Oscar Obregon, in Las Brisas, Acapulco, Mexico, 1972.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from th...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Capucine Slim Aarons Limited Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Capucine
1957: French actress Capucine, (Germaine Lefebvre) (1933 - 1990) fanning herself at a New Year's Eve party held at Romanoffs in Beverly Hills.
20x24" paper size
Estate S...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Black and White
Tennis in The Bahamas, 1957 - Tennis Players Socialise after Tennis Match in Sun
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Tennis in The Bahamas, 1957 - Tennis Players Socialise after Tennis Match in Sun by Slim Aarons
16 x 16" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
New England Skiing, New Hampshire, 1955 - Winter Fashion in Snowy Landscape
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
New England Skiing, New Hampshire, 1955 - Winter Fashion in Snowy Landscape by Slim Aarons
16" x 16" image on 16" x 20" paper.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
C Print, Color, Photographic Paper, Digital
Mustique Hammock - Mustique Island Villa Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Mustique Hammock - Mustique Island Villa Photograph by Slim Aarons
16" x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
'Mustiique Hammock' is a L...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Cricket In Antigua, 1960 (Unseen)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Players on the field during a match between the Leeward Islands cricket team and England's Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), Antigua, West Indies, 1960.
Cricket in Antigua
1960
C prin...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Porto Ercole Boats 1991 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Ercole Boats 1991 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Boats off Porto Ercole, Tuscany, July 1991.
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 15...
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
On The Slopes Of Sugarbush, Vermont, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of people relaxing at the chalet of stockbroker A Albert Sack Jr, at the Sugarbus...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Princess Pia Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Princess Pia
1980
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Princess Pia Ruspoli laying on a lounger by a swimming pool on the island of Capri, Italy, in August 1980.
unf...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lech Ice Bar Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Lech Ice Bar
1960
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
The Ice Bar at the Hotel Krone in Lech, Austria, 1960. The mountain in the background is the Omershorn.
unfram...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
All Aboard, Monaco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of Friends boarding a riva boat in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
This is an estate stamped...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
'Count And Countess Jaime De Mora Y Aragon' Slim Aarons Estate Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Count And Countess Jaime De Mora Y Aragon' by Slim Aarons
LIMITED EDITION ESTATE STAMPED PRINT
Numbered in ink to 150 only and emboss stamped on front.
Coun...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Out Islands, Bahamas, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features sailing boats in the Out Islands of the Bahamas, April 1964.
This is an estate stamped an...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Palm Beach Society Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach Society
1968
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Palm Beach socialite Jim Kimberly (far left) and friends around his whi...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Exotic Hair Care - Nude Photograph Tropical Forest Landscape
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Exotic Hair Care - Nude Photograph Tropical Forest Landscape by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
'Exotic Hair Care' ...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
C Print, Photographic Paper, Color, Digital
Slim Aarons 'Eva Maria Lopez'
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Eva Maria Lopez
1989
C-print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150
with certificate of authenticity from the estate.
Eva Maria Lopez takes...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Catherine Wilke' 1980 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Catherine Wilke'
1980. Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers on the island of Capri.
20 x 16" inches / 51 x 41 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Holidaymakers in Bermuda - Natural Sandy Cove on Beach in Bermuda Island
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
On the Beach in Bermuda - Natural Sandy Cove on Beach in Bermuda Island by Slim Aarons
16" x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later
"On the ...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Slim Aarons 'Pool By The Sea' 1985 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Pool By The Sea'
A swimming pool and lounge deck over the sea at Angra Dos Reis, Brazil, 1985.
40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 1...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Curling At St. Moritz, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features curlers on a rink, or curling sheet, in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
This is an estate sta...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivi...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Mexico 1968 - Couple Walking on Sand by Turquoise Sea
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Caleta Beach, Acapulco, Mexico 1968 - Couple Walking on Sand by Turquoise Sea
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
'Caleta Beach, Ac...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Dining Al Fresco On Capri (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Italian artist and actress Domiziana Giordano, Italian author Francesca Sanvitale (1928 - 2011), Dino Trappetti and Umberto Terrelli dining al fresco on a terrace overlooking the wat...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Fan Mail, 1950 - Marilyn Monroe Silk Lace Gown The Asphalt Jungle Fan Mail
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Fan Mail, 1950 - Marilyn Monroe Silk Lace Gown The Asphalt Jungle Fan Mail by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
Pleas...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Slim Aarons Kings Of Hollywood c1974 Framed Color Double Plate
By Slim Aarons
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 13"H x 20"W
Frame Sz: 14 1/4"H x 21 1/4"W
In custom gilt bamboo frame
Original color double page from Slim Aarons' iconic book "A Wonderful Time" published 1974
Clark Gable, Van Heflin, Gary Cooper and Jimmy Stewart...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Color
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Tina Onassis 1958 - Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tina Onassis
1958: Athina Livanos Onassis (Tina Onassis) the first wife of Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis relaxing by the swimming pool aboard thei...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
Skiers In St. Moritz, Switzerland, Estate Edition Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers in St Moritz, Switzerland, March 1963.
This is an estate stamped and hand numbere...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Catherine Wilke, Capri, Italy, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Catherine Wilke joining the topless sunbathers - along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticke...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Porto Ercole - Italy - Slim Aarons 20th century colour photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Porto Ercole' Italy (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
Beautiful greens of th...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
French Polo Crowd Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
French Polo Crowd
1950
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
A group of spectators at a polo match, France, circa 1950.
unframed
Silver gelatin print
printed 2023
16 ...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Pousada dos Buzios, 1975 - Nude Sunbathing Swimming Pool Brazilian Resort
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Pousada dos Buzios, 1975 - Nude Sunbathing Swimming Pool Brazilian Resort by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
'Pousada dos Buzios' is a Limited Edition Estate Stamped Digital C-Type print by 20th Century American photographer Slim Aarons.
Friends and acquaintances lying by the swimming pool at Pousada dos Buzios in Brazil are photographed by Slim Aarons. The man pictured is Italian restaurateur Stefano Monti.
Just east of Rio de Janiero city is Buzios, formerly a quiet little fishing village and since the 1960s a bustling, animated, and absolutely upscale seaside resort, littered with fine restaurants, boutiques, and posh pousadas.
Pictured here is one such pousada. Also found in Portugal, pousadas offer a blend between luxury hotel and intimate family-run inn.
Slim Aarons also photographed "Buzios" which is available in the gallery. Both "Pousada dos Buzios" and "Buzios" were taken in the same place, but spaced years apart.
Both 'Buzios' and 'Pousada dos Buzios' were taken in this location. The similarities between 'Buzios' and 'Pousada dos Buzios' are most evident in the subjects: the female sunbather wearing a black and white swimsuit with the straw sunhat appears to be in both scenes, and the female sunbather with short hair wearing the leopard print bikini appears similarly in both scenes.
This image from August 1975...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, C Print, Digital
Jean Serpieri 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Jean Serpieri 1961 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Madame Jean Serpieri sits in the ballroom of the Tour La Reine near Athens, wearing a gown that belonged to the wife of Otto, the fir...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons, 'Il Pellicano Hotel' Midcentury Modern Photography
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Holidaymakers relax beside the swimming pool of Il Pellicano Hotel in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1980.
Slim Aarons
Il Pellicano Hotel
1980
C print (Printed later)
Estate signatu...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Beverly Hills Hotel (1957) Limited Estate Stamped - Grande XL
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel (1957) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Sunshades and sun loungers by the swimming pool at The Beverly Hills Hotel, Beverly Hills,
California,...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
California Garden Party Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
California Garden Party
1975
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Guests attend a poolside luncheon at the home of Dorothy Laughlin in Santa Barbara, California, May ...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Estate Print - Leisure In Antibes 1969
A woman sunbathing in a motorboat as it tows a waterskier, in the sea off the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Rivi...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons 'Gasthof Post Pool' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Guests lounging by the indoor swimming pool of the Gasthof Post in Lech, Austria, February 1979.
Slim Aarons
Gasthof Post Pool
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Est...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Sunbathing In Burgenstock, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Lilian Hanson sunbathing by a pool at the Bürgenstock Resort Lake Lucerne in Canton Nidwald...
Category
1950s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons George Hamilton St Tropez
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
George Hamilton Saint-Tropez, 1977
C Print
40 x 30 inches
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity.
American actor George Hamilton holidays ...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lambda
Palm Beach Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Palm Beach
The pool at the Colony Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, USA, 1955.
16×16 inches - paper size
Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150
Photo by Slim Aarons
Printed in ...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Color
La Barranca, Acapulco, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Bandleader Teddy Stauffer (1909 - 1991) at La Barranca, Warren Avis' villa in Acapulco, January.
...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Man’s Work 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Man’s Work 1960 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Working at his typewriter surrounded by ‘bunny girls’, publisher Hugh M Hefner at the Playboy Key Club in Chicago. He founded adult maga...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Catherine Wilke, Capri, Italy, Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1980 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Catherine Wilke joining the topless sunbathers - along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte Ticke...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Dolores Guinness, Sardinia, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1960s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features German-born socialite Dolores Guinness (1936 - 2012) in Porto Cervo on the Costa Smerelda, ...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Swimming In Spain 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Swimming In Spain 1970 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Swimming and snorkelling in the bay at the Hostal De La Gavina, in S’agaro, Costa Brava, Spain, July 1970.
30 x 20" inches / 61...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Holiday Hair Check, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s urban portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Faith Gibbons checks her hair in the mirror of a motor scooter, Bermuda. She is wear...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
Slim Aarons 'Surfing Brothers' 1965 Official Limited Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Surfing Brothers' 1965 Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Print
circa 1965: Freddie and Howard Cushing surfing with friends at Bailey's Beach (the Spouting Rock Beach Association)...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Estate Print - My Toy
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Member of the ‘Jolly Club’, Gabriele D’Annunzio, Prince Di Montenevoso at Vallelonga with his red Lola racing car. He is Chief Test Driver for Firestone International, April 1982.
P...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sunbathing In Capri 1974 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing In Capri 1974 - Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Sunbathers by a swimming pool in Capri, Italy, August 1974
60 x 40" inches / 152 x 101 cm paper size
Estate Stamped Collecti...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Bahamas 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The Bahamas 1967 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
Swimming pool, seen through the fronds of a palm tree, with two people swimming and a group of people sitting at tables at the poolside...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Countess On Deck
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition Countess on Deck
Countess Gioia Gaetani-Lovatelli relaxes on deck during a yachting holiday in Porto Rotondo, 1982.
Paper size very large 72 x 4...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Il Pellicano Beach 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Il Pellicano Beach 1973 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
A jetty juts out from the rocky shoreline at the Hotel Il Pellicano in Porto Ercole, Tuscany, August 1973.
40 x 60" inches / 10...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
A Colourful Crew, Bermuda, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1970 portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of colourfully dressed friends on board the Calypso clothing store owned boat, Bermuda.
...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Poolside Interruption, Palm Springs Poolside Series, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1970s lifestyle photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Lita Baron talking with a guest at a poolside party at Nelda Linsk's desert house in Pal...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como, Italy, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Giacomo and Stefania Mantegazza welcome guests arriving by boat at their villa, La Casinella, on Lake Como.
Slim Aarons
Giacomo Mantegazza, Villa La Casinella, Lake Como
Slim Aarons...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
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